Exciting news...

I am going to NY and LA!

I have finally paid for my ticket, so it's official : )

25 more sleeps.

3 day bday celebrations...

Well, despite the fact that I feel like I have been spending most of my waking hours working, I managed to stretch my bday celebrations over Friday, Saturday and Sunday - quite an impressive achievement.

Friday was drinks and pizza at Bligh after work. We also tested out the new dance floor that has been recently installed at the bar. Unfortunately, there were some incredibly bad dance moves (not ours) during the course of the evening.

Saturday involved more pizza at Il Goloso at Haberfield. We were meant to go to La Disfida, across the road from IG. LD however, does not take booking and assured me, when I called them, that I would have no problem getting 11 people in if I got there at 7. Unfortunately this is not the case. Anyway, after Lou and Parish very kindly checked out a couple of the other restaurants (while I was running late), we settled on Il Goloso. I had a really wonderful evening - hung out with a heap of friends, fab pizza, great looking (and tasting desserts).
A couple of people have strongly recommended La Disfida's pizzas, so I will definitely have to visit them at some stage.

And finally, Sunday was lunch at home with the folks. Mum made a wonderful prawn pasta and poached pears. And as usual, the birthday cake and cannoli came from Sulfaros : )

Quote of the day

A couple of friends and I try to email each other a "Quote of the Day", on a daily basis, as the name indicates, depending on how busy we all are.

We get these quotes from desk calendars, from books, I steal some from the chalkboard of the palms cafe and sometimes we just make them up.

Some of the quotes we circulate are really quite thought provoking or relevant at that point in time ... others are just very funny or silly.

So I have decided that some of these special quotes deserve a page of their own...

• "When you feel that nobody loves you, nobody cares for you, and everyone is ignoring you , you should start asking yourself...am I too sexy?" JR
• "There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look." Henri Matisse
• "You can never have too many handbags or too many friends. Or too many frinds with too many handbags." Hallmark c/o of one of my friend's birthday cards :)
• "To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so." Walter Scott
• "Why is it, that no matter how busy we are, we always find time to worry?" PK Shaw
• "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." Marcus Aurelius
• "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely", Auguste Renoir
• "Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions", Coco Chanel
• "Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think." Dale Carnegie, c/o the coffee stand out the front of the office
• “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” Pablo Picasso
• "Have a vision not clouded by fear." Cherokee Proverb
• "Trust your hopes, not your fears." David Mahoney
• "I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." George Bernard Shaw
• "The severity of an itch depends on how accessible it is to be scratched." AP